Colombia's national infrastructure agency ANI announced it received five bids to build the third lane on the highway linking capital Bogotá and the Girardot municipality in the Bogotá-Girador expressway expansion project.

The Bogotá-Girardot route is "emblematic for the country" and this tender will allow for the expansion of the best highways in Colombia, said ANI's president Luis Fernando Andrade in a press release.

The 67km expansion involves a third lane in both directions, as well as the rehabilitation and maintenance of 155km existing highway.

Part of the government's PPP efforts, investments for the project are estimated at 1.7tn pesos (US$587mn).